Mountain Jam Punts To 2023 At Bethel Woods
A four-year hiatus for the festival is expected to end in 2023.
By Scott Bernstein Feb 25, 2022 • 7:34 am PST
Mountain Jam festival will not return this year. Organizers posted an update on the festival’s website yesterday revealing the next Mountain Jam will be held at Bethel Woods Center For The Arts in 2023.
Founded in 2005 by Woodstock radio station WDST in partnership with Warren Haynes, Mountain Jam was originally presented as a one-day event at Hunter Mountain in Hunter, New York. The festival expanded to a three-day affair in 2006 and continued to call Hunter Mountain home until 2018. Haynes and Gov’t Mule were among headliners at every Mountain Jam through 2016.
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2019 saw Mule back for the 15th annual Mountain Jam, which moved to Bethel Woods for a four-day festival featuring Willie Nelson, The Avett Brothers, The Revivalists, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead and many other jam-centric acts. Bethel Woods Center For The Arts is located next to the Bethel, New York site that hosted the original Woodstock festival in 1969.
Mountain Jam announced a 2020 lineup that included Gov’t Mule, Trey Anastasio Band, Brandi Carlile, Grace Potter and more. The event was canceled due to the pandemic. At the time, organizers aimed to revive the festival in 2021 but decided against bringing Mountain Jam back last year. The 2023 event, for which dates have not been revealed, will be the first Mountain Jam in four years.
Watch highlights from past Mountain Jam festivals streamed by organizers in 2020:
